A BRIEF HISTORY OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY

The 1960’s

1961. Minister of Education Abba Eban and the Israel Council for
Higher Education grant recognition to Bar-Ilan. Prof. Baruch Kurtzweil, a
scholar of literature, determinedly lead Bar-Ilan's struggle for academic
accreditation.

1966. Bar-Ilan grows to 2,000 students and 360 faculty. Bar- Ilan
becomes the first Israeli university to be granted a charter of academic
recognition by American authorities (New York State).

1967. Large-scale aliyah after the Six Day War brought
waves of new immigrants to Bar-Ilan, swelling the student body to over
5,000. Prof. Moshe Jammer, an internationally acclaimed philosopher of
science, became Rector and acting President. Academic advancement in the
university’s second and third decades established Bar-Ilan as the third
largest academic institution in Israel.